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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-23

The city engineer stated yesterday that
one Of the piers u the D5uxlzs avenue
bridge had settled a li--le but the iron
work did not need repairs The floor Of
the bridge would b repaired IN few
Heeks I'm Der has alrrsEfF ben zr,tfrsui
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-23
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

At the residence Of Rev Joel Harper, 125
n Emporia ave. last evening, Geo. w.
Dresser and Miss IL. L. wainwright were
married
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-23

Reserved seats and tickets for the boat
club ball tonight at the opera house Will be
on sale today at Hettinger Bros, on East
Douglas avenue The hall will be nicely
decorated today and the floor canvassed.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-23

The ladies of the new Christian Mission
viii give a Thanksgiving supper Thursday
evening in the pleasant hall on East Doug
las ave, No iii. All are cordially invit-
ed to patronize this delightful entertain
menJ and feast upon Ube many good things
prepared, and thereby assist the ladies in
this most worthy enterprise Of building
up church in this part of the city.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-23
MORNING SESSION.

Yesterday morning at $50 council met
with all present excepting Harris and
members from the Fifth ward. 1t was a
call meeting for the purpose of considering
the electric light question.
Mr. Scott, of st. Louis, of the Tompson-
Houston, Judge Hill, of FIT. Scott, Davis
and Rushing, of the Schuyler, were pres
ent.
ID. n. Johnson moved that the electric
light companies be allowed bill up to the
first of this month, and the city attorney be
instructed to draw up contract with the
companies for street lighting for three
years at $s3714 per month per light or the
price charged by the companies. After
some discussion the motion carried 1t
was opposed by Buckridge in a number OF
speeches and favored by H1aly and John
son in eloquent tones.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-23

N. L. Smith denies that he resigned as
an operator for the Western Union or that
he is to accept position with the Santa Fe
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-23

The last tile necessary for the compile
ton Of the Topeka avenue sewer arrives
YESTERDAY.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-23

City Engineer Mulney says that the new
race track at the ball ground will be one
OF the finest in the state.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-23

er the ordinance and that it be so amended
that no extra power be granted in the new
ordinance and life of franchise be the
average number of years of the franchise
combined. The motion was seconded.
Mr.. Buckridge thought an amendment
should be passed providing that notice OF
ten days should be given before the compa-
ny could commence work.
Mr.. Harris spoke for the company think
ing that amendment would not give the
company fair show.
The city attorney said that the mooted
question as TO extend of the old
ordinance should be settled in the new
by stating whether or not the ordinance
included the old town alone Or takes in
the additions.
1t was decided to meet today at p. m.
for further discussion Of the ordinance.
Brown. chairman of the sewerage com
mittee, stated that he did not believe the
refused thing from the South Topeka
avenue sewer conld be used on North To
peka, and hence the purchase was not
made.
Mr. Derby stated that he favored paying
the Col. Hartzell bill On sewerage, which
he opposed AT the ldSU injecting. NE ndu
examined it and found it all o. K.
Mr. English again introduced the crema-
tor question He had called at several
points, and no one seemed to think his
property would be benefited by the enter
prise, and hence he had found no
one who would submit to a
change His friend Harris was
absent and he did not want to take adj
vantage of him again.
Buckridge moved with English a second
that city attorney draw up an ordinance
compelling all motor line companies to
give fifteen days notice before commencing
work on any street. The motion carried
An electric light was ordered at the
corner Of First street and Emporia avenue
An electric light was ordered on the corner
of Topeka avenue and Lewis street and a
gas light at the corner Of Third and Waco.
An electric light ordered on corner of
Central avenue and Market street at the
request Of Derby.
Water mains were ordered on Wabash
avenue from First street to Central ave
nue..
The Market street ordinance and petit
tions were again read and dropped into
the basket. The clerk seemed weary over
reading them so much and wished that
something be done.
The city attorney was instructed to draw
up an ordinance compelling the Wichita
& Valley Center motor line company to
use horse power south of Ninteenth street.
Mr. Lilly bridge's bill for erecting Thir-
tenth street bridge, ,315 was allowed.
The city paid half and the county one-half.
At this moment it was decided to meet
tonight for consideration of the street rail
way ordinance instead of today at 3
o'clock.
Buckridge-Move Stinson & Cobb's bill
be allowed. English a second.
Healy-The police commissioners have
not acted according to law and paid too
much for the paraphranalia, and not will
ing to pay it.
The motion carried and bills allowed.
The council adjourned to Firemen's ball
near 1918.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-23

Judge Blackburn, of Anthony, was in
the city yesterday and reports his city O. K
with the prospect of the Frisco railroad
completed to that city within the next
ninety days.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-09-17
AS USUAL.

There once was lover who knelt to his dove,
And swore by the things that are sacred to love
That II she would take him and never forsakc
him
Shed find him as good as the angels above.
He swore by the sun and the moon and the stars
To give up when married his pipe and cigars;
That chewing the weed he would STOP and in
deed, he I
Would nevermoro drink with the boys at the
bars.
He vowed that at home would his evenings be
spent,
That nothing he'd do without first her consent
He never would grieve her, no, never deceive
her,
And give her his money to even cent.
He swore that no lover e'er loved us he did,
That ever her slave most devoted he'd be;
He'd think OF no other female but her mother,
Who must in his home make her residence free.
The lover believed he would do as he said,
And SO did the maiden who wouldn't be led
By any one wiser who tried to advise her
That marriage don't change mans habits in
bred.
As usual they married with never a fear;
The lover as husband strange may 1t appear,
Justmanaged, by trying his hardest-and lying
To keep oil his promises-nearly year
III @. Dodge, In GO0ddlrs Sun.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-09-17
FUNNY MARK TWAIN.
The First Lecture Advertised by the Then
Obscure American HumOrist.

The First Lecture Advertised by the Then
Obscure American Hunorist.
"Twenty-five years ago, when l first
went to Carson" said well-known
gentleman of that city at downtown
hotel, mark Twain was just beginning
to come to the front Us humorist. He
was quiet, gentlemanly sort of a
fellow. who could tell good story and
take his liquid potations with the boys
and not show it much, even if he would
drink all day.
''In those early days most any sort Of
an entertainment brought out big
crowd, and when it was announced one
day that Mark was to deliver II lecture,
for the benefit of something or other at
the Episcopal church, it was understood
from the start that there would be II
perfect crush.
"Well, Mark assembled the steps into
the pulpit about eight o'clock, there
being u whole lot of the boys and young
women, friends of his, as we'll rs " good
many old people in front. Mark made
q very polite bow, and then unfolded IL
gigantic roll OF brown paper. People
thought ut first ii was big map, but
it turned out to be his lecture written
on great sheets of grocers' brown
paper, with an ordinary grocers' mark
ing-brush. After his bow he turned
his back around to tho audience and
craned his head up to the lamp, and
thus read from tho big sheets. rs though
it would be impossible for him to SEQ
any other way.
"The lecture was OH The Future of
Nevada and was the funniest thing l
ever heard. He prophesied the great
era of prosperity that was before us
and sought to encourage us reside nts
of the sagebrush region by foretelling
what appeared TO be Golconda like
tales Of impossible mineral discoveries.
Right on the heels of it, however, came
tho marvellous discoveries of Virginia
City, and then we thought he wasn't
so far off In his humorous predictions.
Many u time have | thought Of that
lecture of Mark Twain. IL ought to
have been Published. have read all
his hooks, and never saw any thing
In any Of them better tnsn this. ."--Ssh
Fransisro EGaminer.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-09-17
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

There are 100000 men engaged
in the building trades in the United
States.
"A physician living near the sea
says that during tho past five years he
has noted the hour and minute Of death
in ninety-three patients, and every one
has gone out with the tide, save four
who died suddenly by accident
1t is reported that rich American
is about to establish paper factory at
San Luis Potosi, Mexico. with n capital
of at least $5O0,O0O. The principal ma
terial used will be "lechugilla," n
fibrous plant which grows abuphantly
in that section.
About midway between st. Peters,
burg apd Moscow, Prince Putiatin has
made the important archaeological dis
covery of an image of the constellation
of Ursa Major engraved on grindstonc
of the Stone Age. A similar discovery
had already been made near Wellmar
in Germany.
What is termed flexible glass is
useful product just introduced. Paper
of proper thickness is rendered trans
parent by soaking in copal varnish, and
when dry, is polished. rntbe. w7th
pumice stone. aNd layer of soluble
glass is appncd and rubbed with salt.
The surface is as perfect as glass;
Boston Budget.
"A new plant, said to have electrical
properties, is described by some of the
German journals under the name Of
Phytolacca electrical lit gives slight
electric shock to the hand when its
stalk is broken. and it affects the mag
netic needle, disturbing it considerably
if brought very near. Its energy varies
during the day, being strongest at
about two o'clock in the afternoon, and
fading away to nothing at night.-N
Y. Ledger.
Though electrical storage batteries
have attracted attention only within
the past seven years, the discovery of
the principle is as old rs the century.
Gausherot having first noticed it 1901
that platinum or silver wires gave off
current after being disconnected
from voltaic battery with which they
had been used for decomposing saline
water. The first secondary cell OF
Plante was made in 1904 rkdnSaW
IrdUeler. !
"A universal competitive exhibition
of science and industry will open at
Brussels, Belgium. May 1, 1888, and
continue six months Fifty-six COM
mittees representing all industries and
various specialties, have framed ques-
tions whose solution forms the basis of
competition. Medals diplomas and
100000 in cash will be awarded to ex-
hibitors, who are given special induce
ments by the Belgian government in
the way of transportation, management
and duties.
In nearly every department oflegit-
innate industry greater or less improve
ment is observed in comparison with
the like number of many preceding
years. Lumber, coal, petroleum, and
cotton fabrics are conspicuous for their
steadiness through the usual season of
midsummer dullness. Railroad earn
ings gained fifteen per cent in June.
and fifty roads show an increase of 1913
per cent. for the first week of July.
Money has become more plentiful at
the metropolis, but the daily dealings
in Wall street are small and quotations.
sag upon the slightest provocations. -
. Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-09-17
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

"A husband is frequently very
great sir prize to q woman.
"A man must ask leave Of his
stomach to be Il happy man.
--Cherity, like jelly, shude be set
karefully away in the dark US soon as
made.
Beware of the still man; he is get
ting your size and concealirg his own.
Century Magazine.
Humidity conduces to humility.
One is only little out of consonants
with the other.-BoSton Post.
1t is not until man reaches thirty
that he begins to wrap the small bills
ON the outside of his roll. l.-Puch.
Reason and kindness are the great
promoters of that harmony and hilarity
which generate friendship and affection.
No man should bc expected to
write dry jokes when you can wiring
water out of his shirt collar.
Globe.
The wise head that makes sight
draft on a sensible heart, will have his
paper honored with full payment of
common sense. Whitehall Times.
The new two-cent stamp will be
green-a perfect match for those younr
people who pour out their very souls in
ardent love letters. -SOmerUille Jour-
nal
To make salad. four persons are
needed: spendthrift for OIL miser
for vinegar, Il counsellor for salt. and
madman to stir it all up.-Sidney
Smith.
We write our mercies in the dust,
but our atflictions we engravc in mar
BILE. Our memories serve us but too
we'll to remember the latter; but we are
strangely forgetful of the former
Rural New Yorker.
Wife to husband who has just re-
turned from visiD-"So you intend
to go back again some time" Hus-
band-"Yes." Wife-"You must have
felt perfectly at home" Husband
20. no; enjoyed myself very much"
-Arka,lsaw Trareler.
Terrible storm that, last evening.
George" Didn't hear It, old man."
Didn't hear it? Man alive. it thun-
dered fit to wake the dead" "Ha, I
thought saw lightning, but didn't
hear any thunder. An old schoolmate
of my wife's is visiting her and they
haven't seen each other for ten years.
Burdette.
Two lawyers. one very large and
the other y very small man, getting
into hot dispute, the big lawyer said
to the other: "H you are not more
civil, I'll put you in my pocket"
"Then." retorted the little fellow,
you'll have more law in your pocket
than you ever had in your head. -
~ Y. Ledger.
"A couple of Belgians have invented
a portable telephone, which Is designed
to be used in war. II it gets out Of
order as often as the ordinary tele-
phone, the parties ut each end OF the
line will be ready to tight bsiore they
have talked into the contrivance TIVE
minutes. .-Nswasan Independent
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-09-17
STANFoRD'S PASSION.
The California MilliOnaire's Genuine Love
for Fine Bred Horses.

for Fine Bred Horses.
Stanford's only passion is for fine
horses, and this taste he has gratified
on his estate at Palo Alto, in the heart
of the Santa Clara valley. There he
has a large number of fine thorough
bred horses, and when he goes down to
his country home it is his pleasure to
sit in large chair in the center of Il
ring and see his favorite young flyers
brought out for trial.
1t was while watching one Of these
fast trotters-an animal which had the
enormous stride of twenty-three feet -
that the millionaire conceived the idea
that in some part of his course tho
horse must entirely clear the ground
and have all four feet in the air. So he
decided to have his horse photographed
while in motion. He secured the serv-
ices of skillful photographer
named Muybridge, and he arranged
an ingenious system of cameras
worked by electricity by which
an instantaneous view of the animal
was given us he passed the home line.
About $4,000 was spent ON these ex-
periments; but they overthrow all pre-
vious notions on the subject, and tho
work which Stanford had written and
published, entitled "The Horse in NJ o.
tion," is valuable contribution to
science. Senator Stanford has also
done more than any one else to im-
prove the breed of horses in California
and to demonstrate that the climate OF
that State is superior to Kentucky for
the breeding of swift trotting and run
ming stock. Cosmopolitan.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-09-17
A Few Fashion Notes.

Gauze fans are all the rage now.
For young girls dresses OF white mus
lin are in favor.
The large hat is universal for day
wear this summer.
White flannel sailor suits for little
girls are often trimmed with many
rows OF colored braid.
Silk is worn moro ut present than for
several seasons past.
The sailor hat is, II possible, more
fashionable than ever.
The jersey appears to be restored to
all It's old-time favor.
Serge and flannel remain standard
materials for boating dresses.
Mourning silks are now out In all the
light weaves popular for summer dresses
in colors.-M Y. World.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-09-17
SALTWATER DAY.
An Old New Jersey Festival That Is Rap
idly Going Out.


idly Going Out.
The custom of observing Saltwater
Day is so old that it is supposed to be
of Dutch origin; but long before the
Dutch came to New Jersey-the State
in which the day Is celebrated-the In
dians had custom which might very
we'll have furnished the model 1t is Il
fact established in history that the New
Jersey Indians were in the periodical
habit of assembling in the neighbor-
hood of the salt water for the purpose
of feasting upon oysters. and the gath
ering and eating of oysters was one of
the chief features of Saltwater Day OBJ
served among the Monmouth County
farmers in later years. Before oysters
became private property. and when
there were natural beds of them along
the Jersey shore, farmers living within
twenty or thirty miles felt II keen oys-
ter hunger about the first of every Au-
gust, and on Saltwater Day, which oc-
ours at this season, the beds were made
to suffer. They suffered SO much that the
New Jersey Legislature finally passed
law refraining people from taking
oysters by any means except the un-
supplemented feet and hands, so that
for several years previous to the time
when oysters ceased to be public prop
erty the farmers on Saltwater Day
could obtain this delicate food only by
threading it; that is, by working the
oysters from the bottom. and skillfully
bringing them to the surface with their
toes.
South Amboy used to be Il favorite
place of gathering on Saltwater Day,
and so lately as five years ago as many
as one hundred tent-top wagons brought
in their loads of people from the back
lying farms to assist in this celebration.
At South Amboy the festivities are
concluded in single day, but
at other placcs--and notably at Point
Pleasant. or Sea Girt, rs it is now
called. part of the village OF
Squan--three days are devoted to
them. OF course at these festivals at
the edge of the sea there have come ia
De OtHcr JOYS tHtH lic JoJ VI cttiHH
oysters. Bathing, dancing and miscel-
lanoous feasting are to be reckoned
among the delights of Saltwater Day.
There are stores of cold fowl, sand
witches, homemade pies, cider and pink
lemonade, and some OF the wagon-tops
keep the sun of from keg or II demi-
john of apple-jack. The bathing suits
worn by the farmers and their wives
and daughters are homemade, the
same rs the pies, and are commendable
for their comfort and serviceability
rather than their fit.
But tho observance OF Saltwater
Day is not what it used to he, Rail
roads have brought the sea and the
oysters nearer to tho farmers, and thu
season for the celebration is largely
gone. The colored people still observe
the day with considerable fervor n,
Long Branch, but the festival, speaking
generally, is one which is rapidly going
out.-Harper's Weekly.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-09-17
THE c HLORAL HABIT.
A Drug That Should Not he Taken With.
out u Physician's Advice.

out Physiclan's Advice.
Chloral hydrate is one of the best
sleep-producers known to science. 1t
leaves few pcrnicious after effects, and
does not lessen pain like opium or pro-
duce the delightful, dreamy condition
that follows the use of the last-named
drug in many people. AS taken by
some us an habitual dose to induce
sleep it is not free from danger. Sleep
should be natural in order to be refresh
ing. The effect Of choral is to induce an
artificial condition resembling natural
sleep in some respects, but not giving
the weary brain all the rest it needs in
order that waste of substance shall be
followed by complete repair. Tho
choral habit is not easily formed, for
the taste of the mixture in which it is
necessarily given is not pleasant. There
are instances of it being formed and tho
consequences are mental and physical
debility. the former sometimes amount
ing almost to complete imbecility. Like
the other drugs of its class, it should
not be taken except by the advice of u
competent physician. Insomnia-sleep-
lcssness-is better treated by exercise
carried to fatigue, by baths. avoidanco
of stimulants, including tea and coffee.
and by methodical attention to diet.
ventilation of sleeping apartments, and
massage when necessary, than by any
of the drugs which produce condition
more or less closely initiating sleep
81. Louis Globe Democrat.
--Bradstreet's has u unique statistic
In tho presentation of its strike record
for six months, from which it appears
that at various times during the first
half of the year laborers have been on
strike to the total number of 234, ,73i,
against 1863, S95 for the same period last
year. The number of strikes was 523
to 200, so that the strikes have been
more numerous, but have involved
much fewer numbers than last year.
The number of employees in the build
ing trades who have been on strike is
$4,000. in transportation service 81, 900,
in coal mining $4,000, in boots and
shoes 1900.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-09-17

Men will hurry, and rush, and risk
their lives to get across the street in
front of Il passing horse-oar and then
stand five minutes idly on the curb
stone vainly trying to impress pretty
girl, who was married five years ago,
and who wouldn't look at them even II
they were gold-plated and set with dia-
monds. Son,erviiis Journal.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-09-17

The New England manufacturers
of cotton goods count up their six
months profits at ten per cent. more
than last year, and think they can see
business enough to keep every loom
busy until after the holidays.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-09-17

There are l0S cotton mills in the
South. Georgia heads the list with 80.
Tennessee comes next with "a, aud Ala
bauaa 20.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-09-17

Jasper Caller. near Fabyan's, has
one OF the rarest animals ever seen In
the White Mountains. 1t is u white
porcupine, big one, too. weighing
twenty, five pounds, and already so tame
that Ii eats from its owners hand.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-09-17

Sir Thomas More wrote in his Jour-
nall II make 1t my business to wish
as little rs can. except that were
wiser and be tel"